None of the five members of the Western Connecticut Board officiating crew had ever seen a play like this before. Likely neither did the two teams involved. And neither did this reporter in covering high school football for 38 years, the past 33 years in Connecticut.

When Sacred Heart's David Coggins barely touched the ball with his left foot on the opening kickoff last Saturday, and the ball wobbled to the Hearts' 45-yard line, no one reacted or picked it up.

But because the ball was still moving a bit, the officials did not blow the play dead.

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